I'm happy to report that I've finally started to use the Dillon 650 I bought back in June. Never being a big fan of doing anything in moderation, I've deprimed and resized 2100 pieces of .223 brass in the last 2 days.

Depending on how the Christmas festivities go later today, I'm hoping to fire up the case trimmer and bring 'em all down to size. I spent about 45 minutes fiddling with the adjustment screw on my Giraud trimmer this evening chasing down the last .005" accuracy. Should have looked at the acceptable tolerance before I wasted all that time. Woops. In a test batch of 20, I'm seeing between 1.748 and 1.752. Searching around, it seems like the allowable tolerance is between 1.74 and 1.76. My worst ones weren't that far off.

This reloading stuff is addictive. Those of you who've met me in person know the I'm a "clean your plate" kinda guy. It's tough to walk away from it and go to bed when I could always do just one more batch...

Once the .223 brass is prepped, I'm planning to put it away until I first gain a little experience doing some 9mm. I just picked up a new XDm 5.25 in 9mm today and I can't wait to go try it out. Santa was good to me this year!

Rod